By Norm Hilton FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Feb. 14, 2018)—The Talent Management Board of Directors convened Jan. 25 to slate 13 new product and project directors. Jeffrey A. White, principal deputy…
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By Lt. Col. Kecia Troy, Ms. Carla Miller, Mr. Joshua Erlien and Dr. Christina Bates Industry Sustainment of Army Systems For the first time in our Nation’s history, our armed…
By John M. Spiller Thinking About Warfighting As a young Captain, I was assigned to the Command and General Staff College’s Doctrine Branch just two years after the 1982 Field…
With high-energy lasers, the Army looks to optimize lethality and efficiency against multiple threats and targets. by Dr. Kip R. Kendrick Solid-state laser weapons offer war-fighters unique capabilities for the…
By Maj. Sheila L. Howell, Army DACM Office Proponency Officer Happy New Year! As we start the year off fresh, we are looking for a fresh way to get you…
AMRDEC pursues two missile technology solutions to strengthen the Army’s hand in close combat. by Mr. Spencer Hudson and Mr. Shannon Haataja One of the top U.S. Army modernization priorities…
From the tangible to the cognitive, squad weapons to casualty care to performance-enhancing training, Army S&T is exploring and finding materials, technologies and methods in six focus areas to provide…
By Norm Hilton FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Feb. 5, 2018)—Thirteen candidates from the Army Acquisition Corps (AAC) were selected as the Army’s next product and project directors from the FY 2018…
Facing an enemy intent on creating a highly contested electromagnetic environment, S&T investments in Army networks focus on mobility, redundancy, ease of use and detection avoidance. by Mr. Seth Spoenlein,…
By Ms. Kristy Pottol and Mr. John Getz Our Tissue Injury and Regenerative Medicine Program Management Office is tasked with a nearly impossible acquisition mission: to restore form, function and…
By Mr. Paul C. Manz Global Position System (GPS) signals are extensively used by a multitude of Army and Joint military products and applications. GPS is highly accurate, affordable, and…
Inherent in the coming internet of battlefield things are challenges that commercial products don’t face. But those products might have solutions to the Army’s problems, which is why ARL and…
Human performance optimization aims to take Soldiers to higher and higher peaks of physical and mental fitness. by Dr. Stephen Muza and Ms. Mallory Roussel Let’s flash back to the…
An S&T objective looks to ‘ExPED’ite and improve processing and exploitation of the avalanche of raw intelligence data. by Mr. Michael Pellicano and Ms. Danielle Duff At the tactical level,…
Research in several areas will mature new capabilities to make Future Vertical Lift possible. by Mr. Todd Turner and Mr. Matthew Simone In the future, Army aviation systems will need…
Targeted S&T supports new directions in network modernization by focusing on command, control, communications and intelligence capabilities for expeditionary operations featuring active electronic warfare. by Ms. Nora Pasion Army senior…
By Tara Clements More than a month after returning from our first TDY deployment to Korea and Hawaii with the DOD Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP), I pulled out my…
By Lt. Col. Rachael Hoagland When people learn that I spent a year as a Training with Industry Fellow at Amazon.com, Inc. I get asked, “Did you meet Jeff Bezos?…
By Michael Bold FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Jan. 24, 2018)—Warning that “we have no choice but to get engaged in changing the culture,” Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski outlined the Army’s plan…
Army scientists pursue advances in situational awareness, 3-D modeling and real-time data updating to help units make better decisions faster in urban combat. by Dr. Robert E. Davis, Dr. Kevin…
WASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, the Principal Military Deputy to Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) (ASA (ALT)), met with members of the ASA(ALT) staff at…
By Col. Richard Haggerty Imagine yourself as the Project Manager (PM) of an Acquisition Category (ACAT) III basket portfolio who has just been tapped to lead an ACAT I Special…
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Jan. 24, 2018)—We heard what you said, and we’re doing something about it. The January 2018 issue of the DACM Newsletter outlines the results of the 2017…
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Army Acquisition Executive’s (AAE) Excellence in Leadership Awards were announced at a ceremony Jan. 18 at the Pentagon, with this year’s honorees representing excellence across such fields as missile defense,…
A drone directed by one or more Soldiers through uncontested skies is a thing of the past. Army aviation is developing collaborative and intelligent systems for manned and unmanned fleets…
Development of a government-led architecture specification promises to transform Army aviation mission systems. by Mr. Scott Wigginton and Mr. William “Bill” Jacobs Mission systems provide crucial elements of our warfighting…
An eight-month assignment as chief of contracting in Kandahar yields an abundance of lessons learned. by Maj. Michael Z. Keathley The commander’s intent for U.S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command –…
By PM DCATS Public Affairs Fort Gordon, Ga.—The U.S. Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence (USACCoE) unveiled the Army’s first-of-its-kind Wideband Training and Certification System (WTCS) here on Jan. 11. Students…
A back-and-forth interplay of government and commercial funding and research has brought AI to the edge of a breakthrough. by Dr. Alexander Kott Few fields of technology are as paradoxical…
The Army’s first armed and unmanned ground vehicle is in the works. by Mr. Thomas B. Udvare In 2014, the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC)…
The next generation of Army combat vehicles will need to include manned, unmanned and optionally manned variants that include the most advanced protection, mobility, lethality and power generation capabilities to…
Working group identifies new suite of technologies to boost aircraft survivability. by Mr. Mark Calafut U.S. Army aviation faces a diverse threat environment, spanning broad categories of threats from ballistic…
Technologies to enhance what Soldiers ‘see’ in complex, congested environments promise to improve the information available to make decisions quickly. by Dr. Richard Nabors, Dr. Robert E. Davis and Dr….
Moving objects appeared as glowing blobs in early infrared vision equipment. Clarifying the picture so Soldiers could distinguish people from background objects, combatants from noncombatants, required imagination, initiative and information….
Army DACM Office Updates We’re hitting the road again! A series of meetings will be held in concert in Orlando February 6-8, 2018 including the ACMA and Lead OAP meeting,…
